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print table columns on facing pages
Hi !
I have a single document, containing a table with two columns and several rows. On the left column is an english novel, and on the right column its translation in another language. Each paragraph is in a different row, so that the original text and its translation are perfectly aligned. All this is spiced by the presence of footnotes attached to the text in the left column ! My problem is that I would like to split my table on two facing pages (left column on the left page, right on the right page). Is it possible with Word, maybe with a little help from macros and VB ? Thanks ! Marjorie |
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It's not something I'd attempt. I can think of two ways to do it, neither of
them really satisfactory and both every labor-intensive, especially if you want to preserve the equal row height of the two languages so that the paragraphs are parallel. A third possibility, equally labor-intensive but with at least some hope of success, would be to split the table into page-size chunks and repeat each chunk on the following (facing) page. Set each column to the margin width and make the even-page table chunks left-aligned and the odd-page tables right-aligned. Then select all the text on each page that falls outside the margins and format it as Font Color: White. This assumes that your table has no borders (which will print even if the text is invisible). You need the text to be White rather than Hidden to preserve the row height. It's possible that the text could be formatted in such a way that it would sense whether it was on an odd or even page and be White or Auto accordingly, but that would probably require some VBA (or at least some intensive work with fields). Something similar could perhaps be done for the table alignment. But I suspect you'd need very sophisticated VBA to break the text up into page-sized chunks and repeat them on the next page. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marjorie" wrote in message ... Hi ! I have a single document, containing a table with two columns and several rows. On the left column is an english novel, and on the right column its translation in another language. Each paragraph is in a different row, so that the original text and its translation are perfectly aligned. All this is spiced by the presence of footnotes attached to the text in the left column ! My problem is that I would like to split my table on two facing pages (left column on the left page, right on the right page). Is it possible with Word, maybe with a little help from macros and VB ? Thanks ! Marjorie |
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What happens if you set up the doc with a page size of the two facing
pages? That would allow you to have a single table with two columns an a wide gutter (or narrow column)between them. I really don't know how you'd print the thing, but that might be feasible... cheers Jay |
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IMHO, you would be much better off doing something like this in a true Page
Layout program. Even Publisher would make for a simpler & more effective approach. The difference is that page layout programs actually work with physical pages, whereas word processors deal with continuous text flow. Good Luck |:) On 7/17/05 10:48 AM, in article , "Marjorie" wrote: Hi ! I have a single document, containing a table with two columns and several rows. On the left column is an english novel, and on the right column its translation in another language. Each paragraph is in a different row, so that the original text and its translation are perfectly aligned. All this is spiced by the presence of footnotes attached to the text in the left column ! My problem is that I would like to split my table on two facing pages (left column on the left page, right on the right page). Is it possible with Word, maybe with a little help from macros and VB ? Thanks ! Marjorie |
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